 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1882 - 402 pagina’s
...Tennyson — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Z Upon the world's great altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. " But our confidence will grow in proportion as we act upon it, until at last it will become the very... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pagina’s
...bear — I falter where I firmly trod ; And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God,...is lord of all. And faintly trust the larger hope, ALFRED TENNYSON. it l)c Glunr Singing at £Hibnigl)t. LOUD he sang the psalm of David ! He, a negro... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 pagina’s
...to spring. I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. Thirty years separate " In Memoriam" from " Despair." The difference between the tone of the two poems... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pagina’s
...to faith: 'I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all. And faintly trust the larger hope.' Can man who trusts, who battles for the true, be only the product of material forces, ' blown about... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 410 pagina’s
...literature ? " I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." I need hardly quote more. Our greatest poet only too often speaks thus. In such moments " when the... | |
 | 1915 - 838 pagina’s
...resource in reason, and that the philosopher must take his seat among humble men, and say, like them, I stretch lame hands of faith and grope, And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. And man cannot set aside the enigma. He must persist in the attempt. But the question arises, Why do... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pagina’s
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. tv " So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries " a thousand... | |
 | 1925 - 906 pagina’s
...power, . . . which she com-pels us to accept as an article of be-lief." On Tennyson's "In Memoriam," "I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope," Wilfrid Ward did, indeed, hold, that "faintly trust the larger hope" is "not the summing up of the... | |
 | Basil Willey - 1980 - 310 pagina’s
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LVI "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 292 pagina’s
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. Geologists were returning a dusty answer to these questions. On a geological time-scale, species seemed... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... 
